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3 unusual facts about United States Army Aviation and Missile Command


IHS Inc.

The United States Army Missile Command (MICOM) (now a part of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM)) contracted with IHS to develop a common parts file to be used by contractors designing new products.

MIM-46 Mauler

On 16 September 1963 the Army Materiel Command asked the Aviation and Missile Command to study adapting the Navy's AIM-9 Sidewinder missile as the basis of a short-range anti-aircraft system.

MIM-72 Chaparral

Starting in 1959 the U.S. Army MICOM (Missile Command) began development of an ambitious anti-aircraft missile system under their "Forward Area Air Defense" (FAAD) program, known as the MIM-46 Mauler.


Jonathan Dowling

After that, he joined the quantum optics group of Charles M. Bowden at United States Army Aviation and Missile Command in Huntsville, Alabama, as a United States National Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Associate, where he was eventually promoted to Research Physicist of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center.

Robert E. Cramer

In the House, Cramer was a tireless supporter of the International Space Station and a leading advocate for spending increases in missile defense, as Huntsville has long been a center for research and development of these two projects, as Redstone Arsenal—located in the district—is home of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.


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